Bynagle Bulletin
October 14, 2013
Dates To Remember
October 17, 2-3pm Potato Fest - Families Welcome!!
October 18 End of Quarter Inservice - No School!
October 24-25 Parent Teacher Conferences - No School
October 21 - 25 Book Fair
October 30 Early Release
October 31 Halloween parade 2:00
Nov 8 Artist in The School assembly 1:15 - 2 pm.
Class Happenings
Paper Bag book reports are due Monday. Your student has a rubric that lays out all requirements for this assignment. Students will be presenting their reports to their classmates this week. I am sure that the students will be more thrilled about this than Mrs. Bynagle and I are! :)
Quixotic Assembly
We are going on a field trip on Wednsday to the Homer High School to watch the Quixotic Performance. The school will leave after eating lunch and we will be returning to school around 2. Should be great!
Reading/Writing
Scholars in our class are enjouing the book choices for this month; Hatchet and Lion, Witch, and the Wardrobe. I am excited to be watching their growth as readers and writers. I don't know if they recognize this, but the effort they are putting into their writing and comprehention is amazing to watch. They are using rigor in their answers by sighting the text. This skill is becoming more and more effortless to them and as an educator I am loving watching their transformation.
Protons, Electrons, and Neutrons...Oh My!
We have resumed our science inquiry this week by recreating the first lightbulb invented by Humphry Davy in 1802. In that year, he created the first incandescent light by passing the current through a thin strip of platinum, chosen because the metal had an extremely high melting point. It was not bright enough nor did it last long enough to be practical, but it was the precedent behind the efforts of scores of experimenters over the next 75 years. In our class we used iron wire and got about a ten second glow. (No, the school district does not keep a spool of platinum around for such purposes).
This has lead us to an inquiry about electricity and who can fully understand what electricity is without understanding atoms and their charges.
Next week we will continue exploring electricity and create a simplistic curcuit board. Should be enlightening...
Atoms Create Molecules through Bonding!
Is a Neutron a Positive or Negative Charge?
Do Electrons move fast or slow?
Does anyone know where they are...definitively?
Chinese
Chinese started this past week with our teacher instructing us on how to say, "Hello" "Thank you" "Goodbye" and the numbers 1, 2 and 3. Challenge your students to practice with you. Learning a foreign language fascilitates higher order thinking skills and problem solving. It is also fun to watch the entire class, including Mrs. Bynagle and myself learn something completely and entirely from scratch.
Challenging Word Problems
Students can attempt to answer this problem. Correct answers will get them a prize!
A street vendor sells burgers for $3 each in the morning. The price drops to $2.50 each in the afternnon. On Sunday, the vendor made $120 in the morning. In the afternoon he sold twice as many burgers. How much did he make on Sunday?
Library News
The Scholastic Book Fair is coming soon! Monday October 21th--Friday October 25, the Book Fair will be open all week during the school day. The Book Fair is open all day both days of Parent/Teacher Conferences.
Tuesday October 22th 4:30-6:30 is Family and Friends Night at the Book Fair with door prizes and refreshments. Come one and all and help support the library!
The students go to the Book Fair during their regularly scheduled library classes and during after lunch recess. They may buy books and/or make wish lists that their teachers give to the parents during Parent Teacher Conferences. This gives the parents a chance to see well thought out book requests from their children. Teachers will also pick out books that they wish for in their classroom. Parents and students have a chance to buy a book and donate it to the classroom. A personal placard in the book denotes the donation.
There will be books, science kits, notebooks, posters and more—something for everyone! The students help me run the Book Fair. There will be lots of books and we will have lots of fun!!!!!!!
See you there,
Lisa Whip
Cheryl Illg